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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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Fraud email example:
From: "Ahmed Bello" <ahmedbello@nddc.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: ugjohnson@ilse.nl
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:29:12 +0200
Subject: Please Reply ASAP.
Dr. Ahmed Bello.
Secretary to the Niger Delta Development Commission,
Old Secretariat Complex,
Victorial-Island, Lagos.
ATTN,
Compliments of the day to you.
I am a highly placed official of the Government of Nigeria
and also a founding member of the ruling Peoples Democratic
Party(PDP).
My committee - The Niger Delta Development
commission(NDDC)-which is in charge of managing and
supervising the disbursement of oil sales revenues for the
Nigerian government which covers payment to foreign and
local contractors that have executed contracts for our
country.The revenue under our control runs into several
hundred of millions of dollars monthly. Myself and other
colleagues in the NDDC are currently in need of a foreign
partner with whose bank account we shall transfer the sum
of Forty Nine Million Five Hundred Thosand United States
Dollars($49.5m).This fund was accrued from various over
invoicing of foreign contractors' payments made over the
years.
The Total fund is presently waiting in the Government
Account named CBN/FGN INDEPENDENT REVENUE account Central
Bank of Nigeria.However, by virtue of our position as civil
servants and members of the NDDC, we cannot acquire this
funds in our name. This is because as top civil servants,
we are not allowed by law of the land to own or operate
bank accounts outside our country for now.
I have been delegated as a matter of trust by my
colleagues, to look for an overseas partner in whose
account we would transfer the fund,hence the reason for
this mail.We shall be Transferring the money to your
account with your company as the beneficiary, under the
guise that you are being paid for a contract which you/your
company executed for our country through the NDDC and any
other Federal Ministry that we decide to use to siphon the
funds through.
For your support and partnership, please reply me to
negotiate your fees or the percentage you wish to be paid
when the funds arrive your bank account.
You must however note that this transaction, with regards
to our disposition to continue with you, is subject to
these terms. Firstly, our conviction of your
transparency.Secondly, that you treat this transaction with
utmost secrecy and confidentiality. Finally and above all,
that you will provide an account over which you have
absolute control.
The transaction, although discrete, is legitimate and there
is no risk or legal liability either to ourselves or
yourself now or in the future as we have put in place the
neccesary machinery that will ensure a hitch free transfer
into your account upon acceptance.
The transfer will be effected to your account within ten to
fourteen (10-14) working days from the date we reach an
agreement. and furnish me with your contact telephone and
fax numbers in your first response.
I am looking forward to doing business with you and do
solicit your confidentiality in this transaction, Please
mail your response to me through my confidential email
address : almedbello@nigerdeltadevlopcommission77.org for
me to update you on our plans as to how we intend to
actualize this transaction.
Yours Sincerely,
Dr. Ahmed Bello.
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